Your instructor may give you specific guidelines for what to include and how to upload work on this site. This required section will contain samples of polished major essays (formal, high-stakes writing) you completed for your writing class(es),demonstrating your mastery of course objectives as well as your development as a writer.. Since the course guidelines require at least three such essays (totaling a minimum of 3000 words), this template has three subpages – one for each Writing Sample. If your instructor asks you to have more than three essays, these instructions can help with creating new pages.

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You may copy and paste the text of your essay here.

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